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Foam rolling and tissue flossing of the triceps surae muscle: an acute effect on Achilles tendon stiffness, jump height and sprint performance – a randomized controlled trial.
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Research in Sports Medicine . May/Jun2024, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p443-456. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This study aimed to investigate an acute effect of foam rolling and tissue flossing of the Triceps Surae muscle on Achilles tendon stiffness, jump height and sprint performance at different time points. The participants were academic athletes (n = 32) aged between 22 and 24 years; randomly allocated into two groups: foam rolling (ROLL) and tissue flossing (FLOSS). The participants were tested at baseline and 5-min, 15-min, 30-min, 45-min, and 60-min after ROLL and FLOSS for Achilles tendon stiffness (ATstiffeness) at three reference locations: (1) tendon's origin, (2) ankle joint height and (3) intermuscular septum of the gastronomies muscle; countermovement jump (CMJ); and sprint performance at 15-m (SPRINT15 m). The analysis of stiffness revealed a significant decrease in ATstiffness from baseline to Post-60 (p ≤ 0.001) for three locations in the FLOSS group (p ≤ 0.001). In FLOSS, a significant increase was observed from Post-15 to Post-60 (all p≤0.001) in CMJ. We found also a significant decrease in SPRINT15 m in FLOSS in all-time points (p ≤ 0.001), however, SPRINT15 m decreased in Post-5 min, Post-15 min, and Post-30 min (p ≤ 0.001 for all) in ROLL. The current study suggested that both groups enhanced performance up to 60 min after the intervention, caused by mitigating excessive stiffness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CALF muscle physiology
*EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
*REPEATED measures design
*DATA analysis
*STATISTICAL sampling
*CALF muscles
*BLIND experiment
*ACHILLES tendon
*MYOFASCIAL release
*TREATMENT effectiveness
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*PRE-tests & post-tests
*COMPRESSION therapy
*INTRACLASS correlation
*STATISTICAL reliability
*ANALYSIS of variance
*STATISTICS
*JUMPING
*ATHLETIC ability
*COMPARATIVE studies
*ANKLE joint
*DATA analysis software
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*SPRINTING
*MUSCLE contraction
*EVALUATION
RESEARCH evaluation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15438627
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Research in Sports Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176474681
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15438627.2022.2125317